Why CD players so expensive when the fomat is dead

Lets see, the best selling vinyl album last year sold 32,000 copies (Beatles). There were 17 billion CD's sold. Downloads are still gaining ground, but will never kill off the CD. I think the future is Blu-Ray audio. Just think, the record companies will get to re-issue their entire catalogs, again.

CD format dead? . . . That means I am now officially a perverted and obsessive necrophiliac? Oh my goodness. . . and my Mom thought she raised me to be a good boy!

I just payed $2,700.00 for a Bryston BCD-1 CD player and have around 300 CDs. The CD format is far from dead. I also have roughly 5,000 LPs. 8 Tracks, now there's a dead format.

Still have NEVER downloaded a song. CD is alive and well in my home and car.